St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-14

sand storm some wheat fields had to be

sand storm some wheat fields had to be
reSOwn.
The board of trade the past week
finally Succumbed to the opportunities
of an emiSSary from st. Paul to ''take Il
page" after eXacting pledges that the
editor should be muZZled. The Repub-
lican says of the transaction:
If the Pioneer Press can get $3.50 worth of
satisfaction out of the scoring il got before
the board of trade, it has the capacity for
sucking consolation through Il very diminu-
tive straw.
1t is understood that rebates shrunll
the figures so that they could be easily
covered with gas stock. The GLOBE
has evidently inspired philanthrOpic
eagernesS to get into Dakota The
board of trade the other day listened
good humOredly to the suggestion that
the gods are most apt to boost those
who try to work out their own saliva
ton, without looking for foreign aid.
Capital and enterprise from abroad are
needed, and can hardly find a field more
inviting or lucrative, but the bank
statements show that there is money
here, and abundance can be had on
easy terms. There could be no better
advertisement for the place than the
sight of the rising walls of a massive
hosiery, the growing piles of brick and
mortar for the new college, the erection
of great business blocks upon the site
of burned hotels and mercantile Struc-
lures, and, not least, the development
of the natural gas, which none seem to
doubt lies in immense volume, wait
ing to dispense light and give the
hum of joyous thrift to the COM
munlty-and ensure q street car line
to Moorhead. Somehow there is lack
tn- -
OF the mind. The predatory etfuSions
are no doubt fervent enough, but the
substantial supplement is not obtru-
sively visible. A vigorous start is only
requisite to put Fargo in the list of
cities that are entering upon q new
career of prosperity.
1t has been supposed that the opera
ton of the interstate commerce act
would cut off most of the amusement
trOupes which take summer tours to
North Dakota, but the May Blossom
company was at Fargo and other points
this week, and the theater managers
have early dates for Rhea, John Dillon,
the Carleton Opera company and others.
Fargo has a local telegraph system
confined to the ,ity, with some twenty
five or more instruments, and three or
four miles OF wire. Its utility is not
very apparent, except to teach opera
tors and afford amusement.
Judge Fry, who acquired his little in
Potter county, where he owned two
papers and has since ruStled in the in
Surance line, has bought large outfit
and will commence the publication of a
weekly paper in Fargo next week. If
there is a vacuum anywhere found the
judge intends to fill it.
The frequent carloads of beer shipped
from Fargo to other points afford some
i ldication of theseXtent of the industry
largely involved in the local option
measure. 1t is not likely that prOhibi-
ton can be carried in Cass county with
the present county board, but the inter-
dictlOn in the other counties about will
seriously cripple leading manufacture
IN Fargo unless general home use takes
the place of the saloon.
North Dakota and Fargo sustain a
loss in the departure of Col. A. c..
Jordon, of the Fargo Republican, to be-
come managing editor of the Omaha
Republican. He is a writer of unusual
pungency and force, and made the Re-
publican sought for its opinions. The
paper will be entirely in the very capa-
BILE hands of j. j. Jordan.
Most of the land offices furnish the
papers lists of suspended entries of
lands, but the Fargo Office insists that
1t cannot comply with request of this
sort from lack of clerical force 1t is
information much needed, and the pub
lie would cheerfully see the officials
put i'll little extra time to supply the
data.
1t is sort of an open secret that the
delay in getting the big North side hotel
/ under way is due to the failure of few
parties who will be greatly benefited by
it to put up anything. Fargo has few
property holders whose pockets are like
the boys savings bank. But the hotel
lis coming.
1t is understood that the Minneapolis
q Pacific road will come to Fargo this
season with suitable encouragement
from the business interests. judge
Becker has the past day or two been at
Minneapolis to confer with the manage
ment This and the road to Wahpeton
and the Black Hills road, if all built
this season, will tend to enliven the
situation materially.
According to the records of the signal
service station, the month of April
shows in the past seven years an in
crease of temperature sufficiently uni
form to afford some basis to the theory
that the climate is undergoing a change
as the country settles up. The mean
temperature of the month in 1881 was
1873; in 1883, 1913; this year, 41.2. The
precipitation this year was 2.45 inches,
somewhat above the average.
The Red River Valley league has a
. schedule of only twelve games for each
club. The first one for May 30-Grand
Forks plays at Fargo and Fergus Falls
at Whapeion. Besides an outside series
of eight games between Fargo and
Grand Forks, it is expected that clubs
from Sioux Falls, Huron, Aberdeen,
jamestown, Grafton and other towns
will challenge league clubs. There is
likely to be a good deal of interest de-
velOped in the contests.
There have been apprehensions that
the violent winds last week had caused
serious damage to the wheat. Some of
the late sown that had not taken root
was largely blown away, and in unfa-
vOrable localities there are fields ruined,
but the reports that come in show that
the aggregate will cut little fgure-not
more than 5 per cent, probably. Still
early showers would be beneficial.
Contractors assert that they will soon
be at work on the grading of the Fargo
& Black Hills road
Important Cases.
Special to the Globe.
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